Common Entries Contest MOJO3


This is a Common Entries contest, MOJO3

Reply ONLY by e-mail to momo@physics.ucsb.edu. 
DO NOT POST ANSWERS TO ANY NEWSGROUP!!!
Entries must reach here by Wednesday, July 11th, 3:14 P.M.
	(L.A. time, zone -7).
I encourage you to enter my other contest, Numbers Contest, NUM3, which
	is posted only in rec.puzzles

The rules below are essentially the same as those in my previous Common
Entries Contests, with only minor wording differences. For each question 
the object is to get the most common answer.

Question 3 is NOT a mistake. Please do not send me e-mails asking about
it, or correcting my error.

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[DO NOT POST ANSWERS TO ANY NEWSGROUP!!!]

0. Name or describe a method of producing electricity.
   (I will generally be lenient in viewing differently worded answers
    or methods in the same general class as the same.)

1. Write an adjective.

2. Pick an urban legend.

3. 

4. Write a complete sentence in a language other than English.
   (You may write it phoenetically if you wish, but you should then tell me 
    the intended language and English translation. Punctuation will not
    be considered important in determining if two entries are the same.)

5. Name a type of food or drink.

6. Name a person.

7. Name an rare or "deviant" sexual fetish or practice.

8. Consider the following game. You and nine other readers from rec.puzzles
   and rec.games.trivia are placed in separate rooms, and given two buttons, 
   "C" (for cooperate) and "D" (for defect), and given ten minutes to decide
   which button to press. If everyone presses "C," you will all get
   $1000. If at least one person presses "D," then everyone who 
   presses "D" will get $100, while those who press "C" will get
   nothing. Which button you pressed will not be revealed to the other
   players at the end of the contest. Which button do you press?

   (This question was just asked in MOJO2. In that contest, the
    result was 31 C's and 23 D's.)

9. Write a word which has more vowels than consonants, and which is
   greater than or equal to four letters in length.

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For each of the items above, your goal is to give the most common
response to the question. 

Your score on each question is equal to the number of people who give that 
answer. If you skip a question, or leave it blank, you will score 1 for 
that question.  Your total score is the product of your scores on each 
question. Your object is to get as high a score as possible.

NO ANSWERS WILL BE JUDGED INCORRECT. As moderator, I will need to
decide if two answers are the same, but I will not check the answers for
correctness. The object is to get the most common answer, which is not 
necessarily the most common correct answer. A general class and a specific 
member of that class will be treated as distinct answers. An ambiguous
answer will be treated as a general class consisting of all things which
that ambiguous answer might be interpreted as.

For example, suppose I ask for a color on the current Canadian flag.
20 people say red, 8 say blue, 4 say white, 3 say maple leaf, and 1 says 
leaf. The scores are then simply red=20, blue=8, white=4, maple leaf=3,
and leaf=1. I ignore the fact that blue is not on the current Canadian
flag, that leaf and maple leaf are not colors, and that a maple leaf is a 
specific instance of the class leaf.

For my convenience please do not quote this message when responding.
Mail only your answers, and these in plain ASCII or ISO 8859-1 text:
no HTML, attachments, Micros--t character sets, etc.  (People who fail
to comply will be chastised in the results posting.)

Your message should contain the 10 answers, numbered 0 to 9, and your
name. Comments, explanatory notes, explanations of strategy, and
suggestions for questions for future contests are all welcome, but
please place them after your 10 answers, and make sure that they are clearly 
marked so as to not be confused with your answers. Your email address will 
be posted in the results if I don't see both a first and a last name, or an 
explicit request for a particular form of your name to be used.

Clarifications will generally not be given during the contest. Multiple 
entries are not allowed. Please do not post any discussion of the questions 
to the newsgroup or collaborate with other contestants in your entries.

Have fun!

Momo Jeng (momo@physics.ucsb.edu)